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OLIVER ELLSWORTH SHULER, treasurer of the Glasgow Iron Company of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, was born in Pughtown, Chester county, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1862. He is the son of Lewis H. and Zilpha (Strickland) Shuler, both natives of Pennsylvania. They had four children, two now living: Laura B., wife of Harry Christman and Oliver E. Shuler.

Lewis H. Shuler (father) was a farmer in boyhood, and later a general merchant in Pughtown until the time of his death in 1882. His wife died in December, 1888. She was a member of the Reformed church. John Shuler (paternal grandfather) was born in Pennsylvania. He was a farmer. He married Eliza (Ralston) Shuler and they had two sons and three daughters. He died in middle life. Amariah Strickland (maternal grandfather) was also born in Pennsylvania, and was a general merchant in Charleston township, Chester county. He and his wife both died at advanced ages, he being seventy years of age at the time of his death. They had one son and five daughters.

Oliver E. Shuler lived in Pughtown until he was eighteen years of age, attending the public schools. He entered his father’s store as clerk, and continued as such until he left home and went to Pottstown in 1880. He had a position as clerk there for two and a half years, and after his father’s death returned to his home to take charge of the store. He conducted it for more than two years, and then removed with his mother and family to Pottstown, and clerked for Mr. J. S. Bahr for six years. He entered the employ of the Glasgow Iron Company in 1889 as a clerk. In 1897 he became treasurer of the company. They manufacture tanks, boiler and bridge-plates and employ about eleven hundred people. They also operate the Pottstown Iron Works, and manufacture a great deal of skelp iron.

December 25, 1888, Oliver Ellsworth Shuler married Miss Ella M. Francis, daughter of Thomas and Harriet (Mohr) Francis. They have one son, Clyde Francis Shuler. Mr. and Mrs. Shuler are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Transfiguration, of which he is a deacon. Mr. Shuler is a member of Pughtown Lodge, No. 363, I. O. O. F. Politically he is a Republican, and was a school director in Pottstown for two years. He resides at 255 Walnut street.

Mrs. Shuler’s parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and lived formerly in Berks county. They removed to Pottstown about thirty-five years ago, where Thomas Francis died at the age of about seventy years. His wife is still living, and resides with her daughter, Mrs. Shuler.